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Chelsea Defender Alex Out For Eight Weeks With Knee Injury

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Thunderbooted, thunderthighed Chelsea centre-back Alex will miss the next six to eight weeks of the season due to an ongoing knee injury, the club have confirmed.

A statement on the Chelsea’s official website reads: “Further to the Chelsea medical team’s diagnosis, the Brazilian national team doctors agree that further investigation via arthroscopic surgery is required on the player’s right knee. That will take place over the coming days.

“He is expected to be out for approximately six to eight weeks.”

With defensive partner John Terry currently undergoing treatment on a problematic nerve in his leg, this news comes at a bad time for the reigning Premier League champions. Maybe we’ll see Michael Essien fill in at CB until either Terry or Alex returns?Tweet

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Chelsea Play It Cool Over Earls Court 60,000-Seater Stadium Move

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Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has refused to confirm whether the Blues are in talks about moving to a new 60,000-seater stadium in Earls Court, as was reported this morning.

Reports claim Chelsea are in talks about moving to the site of the current Earls Court exhibition centre (located less than a mile from Stamford Bridge), which is due to be demolished after it hosts the Olympic volleyball tournament in 2012.

“It is very difficult for us to make the philosophical decision that we are going to move on,” Buck told the Guardian.

“Certainly we wouldn’t leave west London or thereabouts and there are very few sites available.

“We have to do things with our other commercial activities to make up the deficit that is created by the fact we don’t have a 60,000 seat stadium.

“We can’t say that we will never move or have a new stadium but at the moment, it’s not at the front of our agenda.”

Translation: Chelsea do want to move to Earls Court but will handle the move in a diplomatic fashion so as not to upset the fans; not that I think Chelsea’s fans have quite as much emotional attachment to the Bridge as Liverpool fans do to Anfield or United fans to Old Trafford, for example.

The softly softly approach is also necessary as there is a major plan to develop Earls Court into a residential paradise. Roman Abramovich’s size 9s would stomp all over that in a hurry.

Ultimately, Chelsea fans will only want what is best to ensure their team’s position at the Premier League’s top table – and they have managed that despite playing in only the eight-largest stadium in the English top flight.

Chelsea fans, are you prepared to leave the Bridge?

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Chelsea chairman Buck backing salary cap idea

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The issue of wage increases has been brought into the spotlight once again by the news that Wayne Rooney has signed a vastly-improved contract at Manchester United, having agitated for a move away from Old Trafford.

It was Chelsea who famously stimulated the market following Roman Abramovich’s arrival in 2003, a role now undertaken by Manchester City, but the Blues are attempting to balance the books at Stamford Bridge and cut a number of players from the wage bill this summer.

With UEFA implementing Financial Fair Play rules from the 2013-14 season, Buck says Chelsea would support a salary cap, but only if it was enforceable the world over.

“We would seriously consider a wage cap. It has to be properly implemented,” Buck told the Sunday Times. “I’m not even sure that Europe-wide is enough. Look what happened with cricket and the IPL (Indian Premier League): the best players are going to go where theycan make the most money.

“We have many of the best players in England and we do not want to see them go elsewhere.”

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10 Things We Learned From the Premier League this weekend

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August 16th, 2010

1. Ian Holloway would like to be taken seriously.

Sky and the BBC must have been rubbing their hands together as the Ian Holloway led Blackpool had a dream start against Wigan. Holloway has been known for many seasons as a wonderfully out there quote machine, but his post match interview was somewhat morose as he was determined not to play up to his mad as a hatter image. Which comes across as even madder, obviously.

2. Blackpool will not be whipping boys

Probably. Wigan won’t be their sternest test, but to win any game away from home by that kind of scoreline is something to celebrate, especially if you are newly promoted. Time will tell if they can keep it up – its Arsenal next.

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Chelsea Enjoying Life On The Edge

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You may remember Chelsea FC from such things as the Premiership, the Champions League and the Gael Kakuta fiasco of 2009. The latter is particularly important since they were thrown under the bus for their participation in the ritual practice of English clubs snapping up from rich resources abroad. Sometimes in a helicopter.

Fresh off their shackles being removed in February over the transfer wrangle, they’re back to pissing off clubs abroad with questionable transfer practices.

The latest is a spry, mohawked phenomenon who reminds people of Robinho back when Robinho didn’t have an asterisk next to his name. (That squad list needs to be sectioned off into volumes.) This one’s called Neymar. You should probably know who he is.

“The English club presented us with a formal proposal some time back after having begun direct talks with the player and his representatives,” Santos president Luis Alvaro Ribeiro said.

“We refused it and made it clear we had no interest in negotiating the economic rights of this player who is under contract to Santos,” he told reporters at the club.

“I found out that the siege continued. That’s intolerable in view of the ethics that must govern relations between the clubs of world football,” he added in his remarks posted on the club website.

“In accordance with FIFA norms, Santos will defend their interests to prevent this type of attitude contrary to (such) principles.”

Santos said their lawyers were preparing a document on the issue to send to FIFA, probably on Friday.

Another English Premier League club, West Ham United, have also made a bid for the striker of 15 million euros that was also rejected by Santos.

Roman could’ve gone with either a forty-seventh yacht or Neymar – he apparently chose both and is looking to cut costs on one. You’d have to think he could just pay full price and wind up about even when eliminating lawyer fees.

And would someone get West Ham some smelling salts.

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